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Pity no one has time to expand the w3fools site - it is such a small sampling of the many antiquated things on w3schools that the two guys that own w3schools just haven't kept up to date. Given the number of topics they cover and how long it would take to keep each up to date they really need to employ a staff of a half dozen or more full timeers if they really want to keep their site up to date - rather than just treating it as a hobby.

If they hadn't got such a misleading domain name then their site would be long gone by now - some sections of it are so out of date.

Both sites suffer from not having enough people to properly maintain them.

haha...true that...sites such as these always save our bums in college

Only because the colleges are still teaching how to write JavaScript for Netscape 4 and earlier browsers and are yet to upgrade their course to cover more modern browsers such as Internet Explorer Five.

As long as you treat college JavaScript courses as history classes and not programming classes then the W3schools site is a perfect source of that historical information about JavaScript.

With the many other languages the two guys cover on that site their material is a mix of programming and historical information and as long as you use a different source to work out which is which you will be able to make some use of what you learn there in programming after finishing your course - but only because the other languages have not changed as much as JavaScript has in the many years since most of those pages were last updated (two guys can only do so much in their spare time).

JavaScript is currently undergoing yet another major transformation and will be a very different language again once IE8 dies so once that happens even more modern sites teaching JavaScript for IE5+ will need to undergo significant rewrites if they are not going to switch to being history courses.